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Activity Structures: Information Collection and Analysis
based on the work of Dr. Judi Harris
In Information Collections, students collect, compile, and compare different types of interesting information.
- 1- Information Exchanges:
- Information exchanges are done mainly through class to class communications. They are relatively easy to manage. The heart of the activity is the gathering of data required to complete a task or a series of classroom activities. In it's simplest form, one class gathers information others are willing to supply. Not only can they collect and share, but the exchange can lead to discussions of thematically related information. When there is an EXCHANGE of information, students are both creators and consumers, making this a very interesting model to work with.
- 2- Database Creations
- Information exchanges can grow naturally into Database creations when the project could benefit from a more permanent base from which participants could view and access the information collected by all in order to use it for study. The word "Database" is used here in the very broad sense of an accessible collection. Most often, it means that the data will be published in some form or other on a Web page. Participants can use it at their discretion. "Data" does not necessarily mean numeric information.
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3- Electronic Publishing - Electronic Publishing is another form of information collection. It usually results in electronic magazines, report repositories or on-line galleries. With the proliferation of Web Authoring Tools, this type of publishing is mostly done through the creation of Web pages making the sharing and distribution of the final product relatively easy while giving students an international audience. Blogs (Web-logs) are a relatively new tool that makes publishing easy and direct.
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- 4- Tele-Field Trips
- Tele-Field Trips allow classes to be in contact with experts, explorers or peers who are "in the field". There are many examples of major expeditions one can join: Maya Quest, .... But much closer to home, we can invite other classes to "join" us as we go on our annual field trip. Classes who join us can help us prepare the trip by suggesting questions or a focus for our observations and by sharing some of the research required. Our students, in return, can become their eyes and ears, reporting back on prearranged issues.
- 5- Pooled Data Analysis
- Data from multiple sites is pooled and combined for numeric and/or pattern analysis. This is a
natural extension of Database Creations when the data pooled needs to be analyzed and results of
this analysis shared. In it's simplest form, students issue a survey, collecting responses. They
analyze the results and report their findings to all participants.
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Spring Acid Rain Watch
Down the Drain
The Noon Day Project : Eratosthene's problem of measuring the circumference of the earth.
More CIESE Science Projects
Monarch Watch
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Spring Acid Rain Watch
More project examples for these categories can be found at
http://virtual-architecture.wm.edu/Telecollaboration/informationcollection.html
(Categories developed by Dr. Judi Harris:
Virtual Architecture:Designing and
Directing Curriculum-Based Telecomputing, Chapter 2).